>> With a Hits, if the top score is greater than 1.0 then all scores are divided by the top score. This is just a cheap hack to mollify folks who are alarmed when scores are greater than 1.0. >>
Thankls, that's exactly the cheap hack I had in mind to mollify my users too :) Regards, Karsten -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2003 18:44 An: Lucene Developers List Betreff: Re: AW: Document scoring - should I file a bug report? Karsten Konrad wrote: > how do you hide it, i.e., how is the normization done? With a Hits, if the top score is greater than 1.0 then all scores are divided by the top score. This is just a cheap hack to mollify folks who are alarmed when scores are greater than 1.0. Lucene scores are not designed to have much meaning beyond the relative ordering they provide. For example, if you wish to meaningfully eliminate hits beneath some particular score then you might need to use a more elaborate normalization or choose a different threshold score for each query, or something like that. Doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
